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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 February 2025. Large baleen whale species Humpback whale Temporal range: 7.2–0 Ma Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Miocene – Recent Size compared to an average human Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom ...
A beaked whale is any of at least 22 species of whale in the family Ziphiidae. Several species have only been described in the last two decades. Six genera have been identified. They possess a unique feeding mechanism among cetaceans known as suction feeding. They are characterized by having a lower jaw that extends at least to the tip of the ...
Dawn the humpback whale in the Sacramento River in 2007. Cetaceans are the animals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. This list includes individuals from real life or fiction, where fictional individuals are indicated by their source. It is arranged roughly taxonomically
Pages in category "Individual humpback whales" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Delta and Dawn; H.
Researchers use variation on humpback whale flukes to identify and track the animals. Photo-identification is a technique used to identify and track individuals of a wild animal study population over time.
There are approximately 89 [8] living species split into two parvorders: Odontoceti or toothed whales (containing porpoises, dolphins, other predatory whales like the beluga and the sperm whale, and the poorly understood beaked whales) and the filter feeding Mysticeti or baleen whales (which includes species like the blue whale, the humpback ...
The whale has rope through its mouth, across its back, around its right flipper and trailing behind. The female yearling was previously seen on Feb. 16 off the southeast United States without the ...
The common minke whale is the smallest rorqual in the world. However, like several other species in the same genus, it spends the summer feeding in high-latitude regions and migrates to its breeding grounds along the Caribbean island-arc and the mid-Atlantic area.